deusx : n900Fly - An irresponsible app for the n900 - maemo.org - Talk - "Start the app and throw your phone into the air, it will show how long was the "flight" and a naive estimative of its height.
(Yes, I got the idea from the much "acclaimed" iPhone Hangtime)"

Simon Willison : Why the iPad may be just what we need for Digital Inclusion
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Why the iPad may be just what we need for Digital Inclusion. Chris Thorpe: “It may not be a Jesus phone, a Moses tablet or something that lives up to hype and hyperbole, but if it does something for the digital inclusion agenda it might live up to Ste

deusx : maemo.org - Downloads: The Ur-Quan Masters - Wow. Now we're *really* living in the future when this runs on a phone. "The Ur-Quan Masters is the public release of the legendary Star Control 2 from 1992. Starcon2 was a revolutionary adventure game which featured role-playing elements and 2D

deusx : Keanu Reeves To Play Selfish Cryo Creep In Scifi Romance Feature - Passengers - io9 - "The film Passengers is set in the future, on board a spacecraft where the crew is making 100-year trip to a new planet via cryogenic sleep. Unfortunately for Keanu, his character is woken up a mere 10 years into the journey. Which means he can spend

kaninka.net : Against Me! - How Low
I’m sick of feeling like I’m... - Against Me! - How Low
I’m sick of feeling like I’m losing my mind. Sick of doing the same things most nights after night. Sick of self-loathing and self-absorbtion, self-destructive narcissism. I’m sick to death of being constantly fucking sick

Simon Willison : Reexamining Python 3 Text I/O
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Reexamining Python 3 Text I/O. Python 3.1’s IO performance is a huge improvement over 3.0, but still considerably slower than 2.6. It turns out it’s all to do with Python 3’s unicode support: When you read a file in to a string, you’re asking Py

deusx : Firefox for Maemo RC3 « blog.pavlov.net - "We’re excited to bring you the third release candidate of Firefox for Maemo. Since RC2, we fixed several usability bugs that were found, as well as addressed a number of performance issues. Based on feedback we’ve received so far, we were able

Andy Baio : Anil Dash on geek attention on the iPad vs. tonight's State of the Union - a little perspective

Anil : Free Publicity: Who do we help? - I'm not a Democrat; I don't much care about the scorekeeping of who has more seats in any given chamber of Congress. But I do think there are things that need fixing in this country, and one of the most important is acknowledging when things are going the

Jeremy Zawodny : Free Publicity: Who do we help? - Free Publicity: Who do we help?: my personal reckoning has just shown me that a bunch of libertarian-leaning geeks in Silicon Valley who refuse to engage with government and civic society at all are never going to make an impact on most of the things that